FIR Live is back with all-star panel on influencer marketing

Has it really been 10 months since the last FIR Live?

It may have been a while, but when we decided to bring the real-time single-topic panel discussion back, we did it in a big way. We’ll be talking about influencer marketing—what’s hype, what’s legit, what works, what doesn’t—with an all-star panel that includes…

• David Armano—EVP, Global Innovation & Integration at Edelman
• Gini Dietrich—CEO at PR firm Arment Dietrich, Inc.and Spin Sucks blogger
• Andrew Grill—CEO at UK-based influence tracking firm Kred
• Zena Weist—VP of Strategy at social software company Expion

Additional panelists will be announced once we’ve locked them in.

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The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #652: May 21, 2012

Content summary: Michael Netzley in Singapore still without voice; FIR Speakers & Speeches podcast of Neville’s PRII conference presentation is up; next FIR Live on influence marketing set for June 16; Neville speaking at Like Minds conference in Exeter this week: discount price for FIR listeners; GaggleAmp update; News That Fits: high-growth companies in Europe embrace social media says Google-sponsored survey; GM ends Facebook advertising but Ford doesn’t; Ragan promo; Dan York reports on integrating Soundcloud and Flipboard (with added comment about Player FM), an internship opportunity with the Internet Society, and more; listener… Read More »

The Friday Wrap #1: Search upgrades, gamification, blacklisted apps and Twitter email

I review a lot of content during the week. Much of it comes from curated collections I follow, such as Smart Briefs. I get email updates from several sites, like AdAge and ZD Net. I subscribe to the RSS feeds of hundreds of blogs. I check the links that cross my Twitter stream, thanks to my Paper.li daily. I click through a lot of items shared over Google+ and Facebook. The ones I find interesting, I publish to my link blog on Tumblr. Some of these find their way into blog posts. A couple make it into my reports on the podcast I co-host with Neville Hobson, For Immediate Release. The rest…well, they just sit there on my link blog.

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FIR Speakers and Speeches: Neville Hobson on Reputation Management at Internet Speed

On April 26, 2012, FIR co-host Neville Hobson gave a keynote presentation at this year’s annual conference of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) in Dublin. The overall conference theme was Reputation Management in the Age of Digital.

Could we genuinely have foreseen the extent to which technological innovations would have disrupted our way of working? asked the PRII. How social and digital media, in particular, would have given rise to consumer power and citizen journalism? Or that we would face unprecedented competition from a new wave of competitors?

These are powerful themes that were touched in every presentation… Read More »

Taking the “second screen” beyond television

The “second screen” is gaining momentum.

Watching television, once the epitome of passive media consumption, has become an interactive activity. Instead of sinking deeper and deeper into the sofa, people are sitting forward, smartphone or tablet in hand, finding engaging content related to what they’re watching and conversing with other fans of the same show.

This week and next, the producers of the ABC series Revenge are planning a to entice people to watch the last to episodes of the season when they are aired, rather than catching it later on DVR or online, by offering a stream of activities that will be made available through the… Read More »

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #651: May 14, 2012

Content summary: FIR interview with Grantoo co-founder and CEO Dimitri Sillam is up. The Speakers & Speeches file from Neville’s talk in Dublin is coming this week. Neville recounts the talk he and Philip Sheldrake gave at the Wikimedia UK Annual General Meeting over the weekend. A discount code is available for FIR listeners interested in attending Like Minds Exeter 2012.  News That Fits: brand humanization is not a social media fad; Ragan Communications promo; the rise of social influence marketing with Klout and PeerIndex; listener comments discussion; CustomScoop’s Media Monitoring Minute; Dan York’s report addresses audio apps… Read More »

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